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UNITED STATES ALFRED TAYLOR, OF BRIDGEPORT,

CONNECTICUT; THOMAS P. TAYLOR ADMINISTRATOR OF SAID ALFRED TAYLOR, DECEASED.

APPARATUS FOR MAKING GARMENT-STAYS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 404,124, dated May 28, 1889.

Application filed December '7, 1888.

To alZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALFRED TAYLOR, a citizen of the United States,residing at Bridgeport, in the county of Fairfield and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Machines for Making Garment-Stays; and I do hereby declare the following tobe a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in machines for making garment-stays, and has for its object to provide a machine whereby the covering of the blade which forms the resilient element of the stay may be rapidly, accurately, and economically effected, and whereby the blades as they are distributed upon and attached to a as, for instance, by means of a rack provided with parallel slots through which the blades may be dropped one at a time onto the fabric and then the rack raised, leaving the blades in a row, or by means of a recessed plate upon which the blades are laid one in each depression; but these methods are open to the objection that both are slow, since a placing of the steels one by one is necessary after each operation, and of the former it may be said that not only is it difficult to so drop the blades through the openings of the rack that each will lie flat upon the fabric beneath, but in the removal of the rack the blades or some of them are apt to be displaced from the parallel lines in which they should lie, in order that each stay after separation shall have its blade perfectly centered therein.

By the use of my improvement not only may the blades be held in parallel lines until firmly secured to the covering-sheets, but as Serial No.292,954. (No model.)

In order that those skilled in the art to which I my invention appertains may fully understand its construction and method of operation, I will describe the same in detail reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification, and in which- Figure 1 is a perspective of a machine constructed in accordance with my invention, certain of the side pockets having blades piled therein, and certain others being empty the better to show the construction; Fig. 2, a vertical longitudinal section on line 3 y of Fig. 3; Fig. 3,a plan view of the frame with the platform removed; Fig. 4, a bottom plan view of the slide-bar; Fig. 5, a transverse vertical section taken at the line 00 cc of Fig. 2 and showing the fabric as secured to the blades.

Similar reference numerals and letters denote the same parts in all the figures.

WVhile this machine may be advantageously employed in the manufacture of any stay in which the steel is enveloped in a covering of fabric, which latter is held thereto by some adhesive, it is particularly adapted for the production of stays of-the character shown and described in Letters Patent of the United States Nos. 362,568 and 372,593, to Enoch 0. Bowling, and Letters Patent to R. B. Wheeler, No. 379,882, dated March 20, 1888, in all of which the textile envelope is caused to adhere and the blade is protected by a layer or layers of gutta-percha or similar tissue.

1 is an open trough or frame, and in the inner walls thereof, near the top, are formed a series of pockets, 2, equal in number in each wall, said pockets being open inwardly and at their tops.

3 is a platform of substantially the same size as the interior dimensions of the trough and fitting therein so as to slide easily up and down, as will be hereinafter set forth. The floor of this platform may be flat; but I prefer to arrange thereon a series of bars, 4, which are placed so as to extend each between a pair of the pockets heretofore described.

5 are a pair of stationary wedges or inclines arranged near the bottom of the trough 6 is a slide-bar extending throughout the length of the trough beneath the platform and having a handle, 7, at one end thereof.

Upon its lower surface the slide-bar carries two wedges or inclines, 8, which are oppositely faced to and rest against the stationary wedges, and are adapted to ride upon them up or down as the slide-bar is moved. This, as will be readily understood, affords a simple and ready means of raising the platform which rests on top of the slide-bar. When so raised the weight of the platform and slidebar would cause the wedges to slip and so drop the platform; but as against this a simple stop is provided, the same consisting of a pin, 9, and a series of holes, 10, through the slide-bar near the handle. This pin abuts against the end of the platform, and thereby limits the downward movement of the latter by preventing the wedges from slipping.

A represents the gutta-percha; B, the textile fabric.

In operating the machine a 'pile of thin v the transverse bars on the top surface of the platform. When all the pockets'have been thus filledsay with fifty blades each the top blade of each stack or pile is level with the top blade of each other stack, and all are substantially level with the top of the trough. Then a sheet of gutta-percha or similar adhesive gum, preferably both longer and wider than the area of 'the whole number of piles, is

laid smoothly upon them, and a strip of textile fabric laid on top of the gutta-percha. Then by means of a hot iron passed over the central line of the trough the gutta-percha is caused to adhere to the top row of the blades, and the textile is caused to adhere to the gutta-percha sufficiently so that the blades are secure as against any accidental displacement, and so that the blades which constitute the top blades of the piles and are adherent, as aforesaid, may be lifted out of the pockets with the textile and the gutta-perch'a. Having thus been lifted off, the next row of blades becomes the top row, to be in its turn secured, as aforesaid, and lifted off. As the piles become lower and of less height than substantially the height of the top of the trough the platform, by means of the slidebar and wedges, is raised to bring the tops of the piles up to their proper level, and the pin serves to retain the platform at the desired height.

The bars heretofore alluded to as being preferably arranged on the platform are to admit of the removal by the process just described of the last few blades without danger of the gutta-percha adhering to the floor of the platform under the influence of the heated following manner: If a self-attaching stay, so called, is to be made, (see Wheeler patent, above cited), another sheet of gutta-percha is laid upon the bare faces of the blades, and the whole structureviz., clot-h backing, gutta-percha, blades, and gutta-percha-s'olidly united by calendering or ironing. If a stay like the Bowling patent is to be made, a backing-sheet is added to the last-described .construction, and the whole calendered or ironed until firmly adherent. Then the sheets are slitted and the stays thereby separated.

I have shown wedges for the purpose of raising the platform; but it will readily be understood that many devices for the eleva tion of said platform may be used in their stead without in any sense departing from mere mechanical skill. Furthermore, in my invention I do not wish to be confined to the exact details of construction herein shown and described, since my invention principally resides in the arrangement of the pockets and the platform for the support of the blades, and means whereby they may be elevated to the desired operative position, as hereinafter pointed out in the claims.

I have herein shown a trough having in the side walls thereof pockets for the support of the ends of the blades. The construction of said trough, irrespective of means for raising the blades therein, forms the subject-matter of another application, Serial No. 296,745, title apparatus for making garment-stays, filed by me January 18,1889.

, The form and construction of stop I deem to be immaterial, so that the platform may be held at any point of elevation desired.

I claim- 1. In a machine for making garment-stays, the trough having substantially parallel sides and pockets arranged in the walls thereof for the reception of the ends of the blades, in combination with a platform arranged within the trough and means for varying the Vertical plane of the platform, substantially as set forth.

2. In a machine of the character described, the combination, with the trough whose side walls are substantially parallel, of the pockets located in the inner walls of the trough'and arranged in opposed pairs, a platform lying within the trough, and means-as, for instance, wedges-for varying the plane of the platform, and a stop for the retention of the platform at the required height.

3. The combination, with the trough having in the inner side walls thereof the pockets arranged in pairs for the retention of the ,ends of the blades, of the platform arranged within the trough, a series of bars upon the surface of the platform, said bars extending of, of the platform having thereon the bars, the slide-bar beneath the platform, the Wedges for the elevation of the platform and slidebar, and a stop for the retention of the platform, substantially as set forth.

5. The combination, With the trough, the same having pockets in the sides thereof and arranged in opposed pairs, of the platform, the slide-bar beneath the latter, the Wedges, and a stop for the detention of the slide-bar, substantially as described.

6. In a machine of the character described, the trough provided With pockets in the side walls thereof for the piling of the blades, the movable platform arranged in said trough, the longitudinal slide-bar, the Wedges, and the stop-pin, whereby the slide-bar is retained, substantially as specified.

ALFRED TAYLOR.

Witnesses S. H. HUBBARD, M. C. HINCHOLIFFE. 

